Turkey To Restrict Access To Offshore Forex Trading Sites

Turkey is in the news lately for its attempted campaigns at curbing the Foreign Exchange trading done by small investors on a large scale. The government has recently released a report in which it is stated that the citizens of Turkey who are carrying out illegal foreign exchange transactions using offshore services or sites will be barred entirely.

If the citizens of the Republic of Turkey have access to the area and site engaged in forex trading abroad without permission, we will prevent the access to those areas.

According to the Deputy Prime Minister, it is just a matter of short time that the country will start seeing the new laws. He has further highlighted that the earlier restrictions introduced by CMB or Capital Markets Board are apparently in force. The new rules will save small investors by approximately $300 million per day on average. According to a media report, after the new regulations were imposed, the daily trading volume in foreign exchange has declined to $2 billion.

As per Canikli, the government is not having any problems regarding foreign exchange market and asserted that the new rules were accurate. He fears that if new laws are not implemented soon, the country will be in the throes of a digital gambling house. He blames the trading sites that run extensive ad campaigns to lure the small and inexperienced traders into risking their money in the foreign exchange market. The daily trading volume of Turkey has reached to $17 billion, and small investors have incurred substantial losses.

CMB has issued some restrictive measures in the foreign exchange where trading leverage was lowered from 100:1 to 10:1 and the minimum deposit limit has been set at 50,000 Turkish Lira. According to Deputy PM, the new rules did not affect the depth of market.

However, there are growing concerns amongst genuine investors because the new rule will hamper their active participation in the foreign exchange market. The ban might allow the Turkish investors to make use of unregulated offshore traders. This concern has been addressed by the latest measure. According to a media report, losses suffered from the foreign exchange market were in the vicinity of $500 million. Between the period, 2011 and 2016 September, around 120,000 people have opened foreign exchange trading accounts.

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